TechCrunch had a guest author, Frank Gruber, write about the The State of Online Feed Readers. Being TechCrunch, the review was primarily focused on features and technology of these aggregators
Jim McGee tells us that "Deliverables [are] the fundamental secret to improving knowledge work." I see a connection to Theory of Constraints in Jim's thinking.
Knowledge@Wharton has an interview with Helen Greiner of iRobot, maker of the Roomba and the new Scooba. Greiner clearly has a vision for the future of robots-as-appliances.
My friend John Barrett has moved to North Carolina and started another KM group, the KM Network of North Carolina. If you live in the area and want a wider connection to the KM community, check it out.
Bill Brantley points to "The World is Round" by Laurence Prusak in the April 2006 HBR. Bill provides a nice review for people who don't get HBR delivered to their doorstep.
Tim Thomas contacted me in regards cultivating communities of practice for people in the natural sciences, biologists in particular.
Frank Patrick reminds us that there will be some fun numbers coming up. Wait until the 4th of May if you live outside the United States.
Kyle McFarlin makes a fun analogy in "Knowledge and Yardsale Exercise Equipment" with the picture that people collect information because they can, like the exercise equipment you see at yardsales.
Okay, so I'm sitting here with my mother, who is attempting to learn how to deal with GMail, and I am flabbergasted at how unintuitive some of the interface is with it.
Another break in our regular programming for the arrival of Hogarth Gordon Vinson on March 27th. Time to introduce v1 to his baby brother.
Dinesh Tantri makes an interesting link between the Freakonomics' discussion of incentives and that of incentives for sharing in a recent article.
I've just learned that my blog is being studied in group assignment on knowledge taxonomies in a class at McGill. One of the students just contacted me with some questions about my process. This is my response.
For anyone who feels they have the time, Caroline De Brun in the KM group at the U.K. National Health Service is building a KM glossary and is asking for help. Here are some stabs at additions.
Kevin Rutherford has taken me literally and has some ideas for defining and quantifying personal goals. He has an idea (untested) for a mechanism to define and quantify personal goals.
Sharon Richardson at Joining Dots had a piece on "Investing in knowledge" a few weeks ago. Sharon provides a suggestion for how to think about how an organization values knowledge and where current projects fall with respect to people, information and data.